regular expression to remove links [duplicate]

Question

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RegEx match open tags except XHTML self-contained tags

I have a HTML page with

<a class="development" href="[variable content]">X</a>

The [variable content] is different in each place, the rest is the same.
What regexp will catch all of those links? (Although I am not writing it here, I did try...)

Answer 1

What about the non-greedy version:

<a class="development" href="(.*?)">X</a>

Answer 2

Try this regular expression:

<a class="development" href="[^"]*">X</a>

Answer 3

Regexes are fundamentally bad at parsing HTML (see Can you provide some examples of why it is hard to parse XML and HTML with a regex? for why). What you need is an HTML parser. See Can you provide an example of parsing HTML with your favorite parser? for examples using a variety of parsers.